Product Description: Social scientists and philosophers confronted with religious phenomena have always been challenged to find a proper way to describe the spiritual experiences of the social group they were studying. The influence of the Cartesian dualism of body and mind (or soul) led to a distinction between non-material, spiritual experiences (i...read more

Product Description: How does religion cope with changing situations? Are orthodoxy and liberalism really competing strategies? The essays in this volume argue three views. (1)Orthodoxy is not to be seen as the real and original form of a given religion, but as an idealized original form that should be construed as a construction in reaction to changes in time...read more

Product Description: Der Gang der Religionen durch die Geschichte ist vielfach mit der Kategorie "Inkulturation" interpretiert worden. Heute wird diese Kategorie immer wieder in Frage gestellt, da sie unterstellt, dass sich Religionen bei ihrer Ausbreitung als zunachst kulturell neutrales Phanomen verschiedentlich inkulturieren...read more

Product Description: These essays examine the ways in which Jewish culture has existed in a mutually enriching, if sometimes problematic, relationship with surrounding non-Jewish cultures. Leading scholars in Judaic studies take up broad methodological concerns and specific case studies illustrating Jewish embeddedness in other cultures and re-examining the famous textuality of the Jews, expanding the notion of text to include other works of art, both material and spiritual...read more

Product Description: Through current expressions of religion, people are confronted with all kinds of longings and desires which have no place in a rationalised and alienated culture. At the same time, these longings are seeking and finding opportunities for expression...read more

Product Description: Millennial movements do not always go boom and bust. As innovative responses to worlds in crisis or projections of possibilities for a world in the doldrums, millennialism has been a prime mover for many an artistic and scientific vision of the world reconfigured...read more

Product Description: In a world society ruled by economic globalisation, by political interests and theories such as Huntington's - clash of civilisations that widen the gap between the North and the South, the question should be asked of the role of the religion...read more

Product Description: On May 28, 1995, at Bertinoro, the town where the great commentator of the Mishrah, Ovadiah, once lived, scholars from various prestigious universities founded Mediterraneum. Mediterraneum is a network of eight European and Mediterranean universities for the comparative study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from the perspectives of cultural anthropology, history of religions, and comparative ethics...read more

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Contributed research papers presented at the Asian Conference on 'the Culture of Peace: the Experiences and the Experiments', held on 25-29, November, 1996 in New Delhi. (view table of contents)

Some of the best scholars in the field of the anthropology of indigenous systems of theology such as Mary Douglas, Morton Klass, and Edith Turner are represented here. Explorations in Anthropology and Theology treats indigenous systems of religious thought, including 'popular' American secular rituals, with the respect and attention usually reserved for only the 'higher religions,' covering topics such as feminist spirituality, traditional religions and the impact of modernization, alternative approaches to the sacred, implications for fieldwork, and the relationship and relevance of theology and anthropology to one another. The result is a stimulating exploration of a new field of research that is still being shaped and defined, the anthropology of theology. Papers represent most of the major ethnographic areas of the world, including Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe, the United States and the Artic. Recommended for various courses in theology , anthropology of religion, symbolic anthropology, and fieldwork. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by KEULMAN, Kenneth